Part 2 of finding full-text articles in PubMed.

1. Searching Beyond PubMed Central: Free Full-text Articles in The National Library of Medicine’s PUBMED Database Mark D. Puterbaugh Information Services Librarian Eastern University, Warner Memorial Library, St. Davids, PA [email_address]

2. Presented by Mark D. Puterbaugh Information Services Librarian And Malinda Shannon Research Assistant Warner Memorial Library Eastern University St. Davids, PA 19087

3. Pubmed is a search engine provided by the National Library of Medicine. It includes the bibliographic database Medline. “ MEDLINE is the NLM's premier bibliographic database that contains references to journal articles in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). The database contains citations from 1950 to the present , with some older material. “ ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/overview.html#Introduction ) While primarily a citations resource, searches in PubMed can be limited to locate full-text articles from publications freely available on the web including the National Library of Medicines’ PubMed Central journal archive.

4. PubMed can be searched at http://www.pubmed.gov/ Before entering a search select

5. Check the box next to “Links to free-full text”. Enter the search term and then press Search.

6. From the results list select the Free article in PMC link.

7. Select the publisher’s icon to view the journal site. The article citation and abstract screen appears (if available).

8. The publisher’s site provides access in a variety of ways. In this case the researcher may view the article in an Acrobat .pdf file.